PIGEOXS AXD ALL ABOUT THEM. 



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ment, but the bird will be "entered in wrong class " and so 

 he is disqualified. I have seen several boxes opened in my 

 time, in which every bird was dead; smothered to death. 



Again, the attendant, the world over, is just the same. 

 If he opens a box, in whicli every bird is properly tagged, 

 with its class, sex, etc., so plainly shown that anybody can 

 tell where it goes, he does not waste any time, but puts every 

 bird in its nice airy show pen, where it is quickly watered, 

 and fed, and made to feel at home. 



Shippintr l'*^^ f'^r Shows. 



But let him open a box in which is one of the "jumbles'' 

 to which I have referred, and he will pick up a bird or two, 

 call two or three helpers, to assist him, and between them 

 they will say, "Oh ! let this go till we have more time; we 

 don't know where they go." So the birds, crowded, hungiy 

 and thirsty, are set to one side, to wait until the last thing. 



